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Advanced Family Violence Training - Customised training solution

Learn the definition of family violence and how to ascertain which behaviours are family violence and which are not.

 

The Family Law Act 1975 will be examined with opportunities for participants to consider statistics and population groups that are more likely to experience family violence.

Other key concepts include; perspectives of family and domestic violence, individual pathology and inter-generational perspectives of violence, social stressors and individual risk and effects of common beliefs on the person experiencing the violence.

 

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the dynamics in relationships and their interactions
  • Family violence and abuse is not a “relationship problem”
  • How family violence manifests in these interactions
  • The presence of coercive control in a relationship
  • Understand adult attachment styles in the context of family violence behaviours
  • Inadvertent collusion in sessions
  • Role-plays focused on assessing these styles/questioning and working with the family violence dance in adult relationships
  • Skills in raising the violence with the users of violence, and the recipients of violence
  • Looking at subtly coercive behaviours, and management of self and others
  • How family violence in separated families occurs in different ways
  • How family violence occurs differently in specific communities such as culturally and linguistically diverse or immigrant communities and in church and denomination areas.

Ideal for

This workshop is particularly suited to attendees who already have an understanding of family violence and/or work with family violence as part of their profession and wish to extend and deepen their knowledge in this area.

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